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Re-claiming Bickerstaffe Colliery
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Re-claiming Bickerstaffe Colliery
Re-claiming Bickerstaffe Colliery
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iBase ID
269262
Reference identifier
SKE20150926001
Title
Re-claiming Bickerstaffe Colliery
Place
Bickerstaffe
Personal names
Mr. V. A. Coates, Captain L. B. Crickmer, 2nd Lieut G.C.W. Marten
General notes
Members of the Territorial Army, Liverpool 508 Squadron, with earth moving equipment work on leveling the spoil heaps on the site of the old Bickerstaffe Colliery. At this time the main spoil heap had already been planted with 16,000 trees, the attention was on the smaller heaps lying between the main heap and the Rainford By-pass. Planting was to follow. The men working on Sundays with 2 bulldozers moved 300 tons of earth per hour watched by County officials and a newsreel cameraman. Mr. Coates, the County Planning Officer, launched the scheme to bring back into use 10,000 acres of this type of lost land across the County.
Medium
Photographic print
Colour
Monochrome
Original image size
16/11.8
Year of image
1953
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Locator
L32
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ENVIRONMENT
>
Landscape
HISTORY
>
Twentieth Century onwards
INDUSTRY
>
Mining
PEOPLE
>
At Work
Place Names
>
Bickerstaffe
TRANSPORT
>
Road
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